excrescences
Meaning of excrescences
- a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality.
the males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout
late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere ‘grow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + crescere ‘grow’.
Information about excrescences
- It is a name.
- The singular form of excrescences is: excrescence.
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Hyphenation of excrescences
ex-cres-cences
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- excrescences is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
excrescences synonyms
Meaning a tumour or other abnormal formation:
Meaning a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape:
Meaning an abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:
Meaning a thing that protrudes from something else:
Meaning something that protrudes; a protuberance:
Meaning a rounded lump or ball, especially at the end or on the surface of something:
Meaning a small swelling or aggregation of cells in the body, especially an abnormal one:
Meaning something that grows out of something else:
Meaning a small, hard, benign growth on the skin, caused by a virus:
Meaning the temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour:
Meaning a small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus:
Meaning a severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria:
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